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Murder of Barnard student Tessa Majors & Assault on Bob Lederer; UN Panel on Hate Speech
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Tune to Out-FM on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 from 9-10pm on WBAI/NY 99.5FM or wbai.org for 2 segments:
1) a discussion and analysis of last year's assaults in Harlem's Morningside Park, including against our cohost Bob Lederer and the murder of Barnard student Tessa Majors
2) Naomi Brussel's coverage of the UN panel on Hate Speech Against LGBTI people (Note: This will refer to the United Nations term "SOGIE," which stands for sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.)
Tessa Majors Remembrance in Morningside Park, Dec. 2019
Discussion of recent attacks in Harlem’s Morningside Park and what they mean about structural inequality and racism, and the lack of programs to address them, in the city. We’ll focus on the murder of Barnard student Tessa Majors in December 2019 and the grievous assault on our own Bob Lederer in April 2019. In this segment, two of Out-FM’s cohosts, Bob Lederer and John Riley (Bob's partner/husband) will actually be guests, along with Iesha Sekou, founder and CEO of Street Corner Resources, a Harlem-based anti-violence community organization. Bob suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of an assault upon him in Morningside Park, from which he is largely but not fully recovered. Violence in Morningside Park has been widely publicized since Tessa’s murder, but is also a problem in other parts of the city. Panelists will discuss what can be done to address the underlying causes of the violence and what we need to be vigilant about as we witness the upcoming trials of children alleged to have been involved with the robbery/murder of Tessa. The joint interview will be hosted by Naomi Brussel.
Iesha Sekou of Street Corner Resources
Bob Lederer (L) & John Riley (R)
Michelle LeClair Expose of Scientology
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Tune to Out-FM on Tuesday, November 25th from 9-10pm on WBAI/NY 99.5FM or wbai.org for a special on Scientology, how it uses unethical means to enforse their will on those that oppose them and it’s anti-gay policy with a special focus on former high ranking leader Michelle LeClair, a lesbian.
We'll also present an excerpt from the 3 time Emmy winning documentarly Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. The film focuses on a number of former Scientology executives that left the Church for various reasons. It details the unethical methods of the group which range from using “audit” sessions against a person, if they ran afoul of the church hierarchy. Auditing is a religious practice similar to confession. The church also employs its congregants as snitches to spy on other church members and write up their “violations”. Additionally they’ve been show to engage in illegal practices in harassing former members, especially those that speak out against the Church of Scientology.